Federal courts have uniformly blocked President Donald Trump’s order seeking to end birthright citizenship for children who are born in the United States to someone in the country illegally

The first section of the 14th Amendment states that all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to its jurisdiction, are citizens of the United States and of the state where they reside. Simply put, the Citizenship Clause of the 14th ...

The 14th Amendment and some Congressmen's racist views on immigrants shaped prior Supreme Court reasoning that people born here are citizens.